Dishoom

Dishoom pay loving homage to the Irani cafés that were once part of the fabric of life in Bombay. These cafés broke down barriers by bringing people together over food and drink. Since 2015 they have donated a Magic Breakfast for every breakfast served at their restaurants, over 230,000 breakfasts in 2016 alone.

Dishoom support Magic Breakfast for every breakfast they serve because they believe breaking down hunger as a barrier to education is important and urgent. The money donated all comes from Dishoom – it is not added to their guests’ bill or requested through donations in their cafés. They also work with local Magic Breakfast schools, teaching children and parents about healthy breakfasts.

In May 2017 Dishoom celebrated donating over 2 million meals to children in the UK and India. Here's their brilliant video to mark this milestone:

Magic Breakfast's head office is in London (our office space is kindly lent to us by Pearson), but our School Partners are located all over England and Scotland so they can be close to the schools they work with.

Magic Breakfast not only provides food aid to schools, but has an expert team to help identify and reach every hungry pupil, offer nutrition advice and training, give parents nutrition and food hygiene training, and advise on post-breakfast activities such as book clubs and exercise sessions.

Magic Breakfast was founded by Carmel McConnell, MBE, in 2003, but she started buying and delivering breakfasts to five schools in the London borough of Hackney three years previously after hearing from headteachers there that many of their pupils couldn't concentrate until they had had their lunch as they were too hungry.